The Bayer Leverkusen Post
Market30 Aug 2027
Malik Tillman puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bayer Leverkusen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Loïc Badé in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bayer Leverkusen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market30 Aug 2027
Bayer Leverkusen may not be able to give Facundo Medina what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Facundo Medina wants continental football; whether Bayer Leverkusen can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Bayer Leverkusen
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Ernest Poku was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Bayer Leverkusen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miguel Gutiérrez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market30 Aug 2027
Matthias Groß steps up from the Bayer Leverkusen academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matthias Groß has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market30 Aug 2027
Bayer Leverkusen promote René Franke from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. René Franke has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Bayer Leverkusen lose Peter Richter
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Squad 5 Bayer Leverkusen players away with their countries
- Player ratings Jarell Quansah stands above it all
- The dugout Patrik Schick has become a man the manager trusts